Notebook dump!

Fun fact: I can look back through old notebook dump posts (here, here and here, for example) and find ideas that have made it into books – including the title Purgatory Chasm. Kinda kool! (Well, I think so, anyway.)

Here’s the new batch:

Title: Western Star

Man facing firing squad in Utah. 4 live rounds, 1 wax bullet. The idea is that there’s lifelong doubt as to whether you killed a man, but in practice the experienced marksmen know immediately if they fired wax.

Black cherry.

Good time to meet a character: first day on a new job he’s overqualified for. His business failed, he’s embarrassed, he’s working with a bunch of kids.

Title: Surface Rust (like that one – Conway?)

Eudora Spoon [a character in some Conway Sax books]: painter?

Character who manages a perpetually-about-to-go-out-of-business clothing store at a mall.